• OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Apple will find a way to appease the dumbasses in Europe

      I imagine Tim Apple’s bottom is shinier than Bender’s from all that kissing. One often wonders why people keep drinking the Kool-Aid from such behemoths. Must be something in the water.

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      10 months ago

      but there’s nothing in the law that states they have to let you sideload whatever you choose

      That’s pretty much exactly what the law does say.

      The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores using, or interoperating with, its operating system and allow those software applications or software application stores to be accessed by means other than the relevant core platform services of that gatekeeper.

      There’s a provision for not letting the user actively break the device, but that’s it. And it’s couched in terms like “if strictly necessary and proportionate” and “provided they are justified”, so it’s not something Apple can apply on a whim.

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          10 months ago

          It doesn’t say anything about specific software. They have to allow you to use third party stores, they don’t have to allow you to download torrent apps so that you can pirate.

          Literally in the quote I posted…

          The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores

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          10 months ago

          There was a time, on Android custom roms, if you had pirated apps installed, they were uninstalled automatically. I see something similar happening here.

          I’m sure Apple will do malware scans on third party apps, like they do on the Mac. But if they start uninstalling legitimate third party apps, that’s going to be treated as “no allowing third party app stores” and the maximum EU fine for that is high enough to bankrupt Apple. They won’t do it.

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            10 months ago

            the maximum EU fine for that is high enough to bankrupt Apple. They won’t do it.

            I don’t think Apple will remove side loaded apps at a massive scale, but let’s be real. Apple is worth more than a trillion. If the EU fines them enough to bankrupt, they will just leave the EU and not pay the fine. US would go to war with the EU before they allow such amount of money to be transferred to the EU.

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      10 months ago

      If less options is the only selling point of iOS, then it is a shit OS.